Mother's Day is right around the corner and I wanted to share this easy gift idea with you. If you are a teacher or a mom you probably have an obsession with notepads. You can never have too many of them. I can't be the only one who has a drawer full and still buys more when I see a cute one in the Dollar Spot! Right?!? Last year, we made these fun notepads to give as gifts and they were a huge success! Most importantly, they were easy prep and very inexpensive. For a class set of 22 kids, It cost me less than $10 to make these.

These three rolls were barely enough, so I would suggest buying more than 3 just to be safe.

I ran off enough copies so that each child could pick out 20 sheets to add to their notepad. Once you've made copies, cut them in half so you get 2 notebook sheets from one page. I used a hole punch to make 2 holes at the top. This is where the ribbon will go.

I let each child come up and pick their own colors of paper for their notepad and then they chose which color of ribbon they wanted. We threaded the ribbon through the holes of the paper and tied a bow to keep all the papers in place. They add a little fun the the pen with these cute flowers. I traced a flower pattern onto colored paper and and the kids decorate them and wrote sweet messages. I laminated them and glued them onto then end of the pen with hot glue. They turned out so cute!

If you like this idea and want to use it in your classroom, you can click here to download the notepad sheets. You can pin the image below to save it for later.

Spring is here and my friends and I are back to celebrate! We have each chosen a book to help you spring into reading (like how I did that hehehe) or to help get you though the school year. Each of us has also created a freebie to go along with the book we will be sharing! How awesome is that?!? All you need to do is hop to each blog to grab the freebie to go along with each book! There is more! You can also enter for a chance to win ALL 8 BOOKS! You read that right. Want to know how you can win? Keep reading this post to find out!

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The Knuffle Bunny series by Mo Willems is one of my favorites. I chose Knuffle Bunny because I always loved sharing it with my class during this time of year. One of my favorite things about this story is that Mo uses real photographs to go along with his illustrations.

Knuffle Bunny is about a young girl named Trixie and her favorite friend, Knuffle Bunny. One day, Trixie, Knuffle Bunny and her dad take a trip to the Laundromat. They have the best day until Trixie realizes that somebunny was left behind once they got home. Will Trixie and her dad be able to find Knuffle Bunny? I guess you'll have to read the story to find out!

I have a fun freebieto share with you that goes along with this book. This flip flap book is to be used to practice sorting syllables.

Now for the GIVEAWAY details! Here is how you can enter to win 8 AMAZING books for YOUR classroom! Before you hop on to see my sweet friend, Jen from Teaching in the Tongass, don't forget to grab my number! Each blogger will have a number at the end of his/her post. Collect all the numbers along the way and when you're done, add them all up and enter the sum into the Rafflecopter below!